Label Text:An old timer, Zenas A. Curtis, inspired this elegiac painting. As he and Dunton reminisced about the old west, the cattleman’s silhouette against the foothills in fading light gave the artist an idea for a painting. Dunton said, “The west has passed—more’s the pity. In another twenty-five years the old-time westerner will have gone too—gone with the buffalo and the antelope. I’m going to hand down to posterity a bit of unadulterated real thing, if it’s the last thing I do—and I’m going to do it, muy pronto.”